Word: ham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-distance communications by amateur radio. Magnuson, call sign W21JB, is an enthusiastic practitioner: in the past seven years, operating his rig from his apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village, he has made at least one contact with 301 of the 315 "countries" from which ham radio broadcasts can originate (a total that includes a single country's widely separated parts, such as Hawaii and Alaska...
...loses the part, and Michael, broke, decides to go for it. When, as Dorothy, he enters the strange subculture of the soaps, he must contend with such fine comic caricatures as a smooth, womanizing director (Dabney Coleman) and an aging ham actor (George Gaynes) who becomes so smitten with Dorothy that he ends up in the street beneath her window warbling, "I'll know when my love comes along." Then there is Jessica Lange as Julie Nichols, the soap opera's heroine...
...secret heroine of Hollywood movies: the divine masochist, the superior woman battered by fate, society, ham-fisted men and her own acute facility for self-destruction. Serious actresses, itching to play something more demanding than bimbettes and stand-by wives, love divine masochist roles. They get to run through huge emotions, from innocence through every sordid experience, often embracing rarefied forms of madness and an early, spectacular death. Playing the suffering saint can make and shape an actress's career (like Garbo's); it can win fans, raves and Oscars. This year the only sure shots for Best...
Without a doubt, the main event of the weekend will be Thanksgiving dinner, served at Adams House from noon until 2 p.m. "Lordy, are we going to have a dinner," said DuFour. The menu will include pecan-stuffed turkey, sugar-cured ham with sweet potatoes and three different kinds...
However, the line between negative advertising so blatant that it infuriates voters and slightly less ham-handed ads that impress them is elusive. In Texas, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen won re-election with the aid of a TV ad that pictured a frail old woman walking to her mailbox, finding it empty and staring at the camera in despair, while a voice accused Bentsen's opponent James Collins of plotting to wreck Social Security. Though Collins once advocated making Social Security voluntary, he now insists that he is avid to preserve the system. In Pennsylvania, Democrat Peter Kostmayer...